: What do you call this type of top down grid, sort of trapezoidal? I have checked and this may be called Top-Down (Oblique) from the wikipedia page of Axonometric projection BUT the image

@Alves566

The image seems to contain three different perspectives:


The tiles (magenta) are drawn using two-point perspective. The x-axis is parallel to the picture plane while the lines parallel to the y-axis converge to vanishing point A (backwards) and the lines parallel to the z-axis converge to vanishing point B (downwards).
The characters (cyan) doesn't really have perspective. They are just flat sprites seen from the side. The rear character seems to bee a little bit smaller than the others, so there might be some scaling going on. In lack of a better term I would call it two and a half dimensional or 2.5D.
The background (orange) is drawn using a classic two-point perspective with the two vanishing points, C and D, placed on the horizon.


This style of graphics might have a proper name in the (japanese?) gaming industry, but I'm not aware of it.

I don't think there is a special mathematical logic behind it. It's really just a collage of images, cleverly placed and sized in an attempt to give a three-dimensional illusion.

Wikipedia on perspective.

Wikipedia on 2.5D.

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@Kimberly620

Its not in the family of axonometric projections. So it is either in the family of perspective, some random projection or it is not a projection at all.

I would just call it a perspective grid. This is also by the way why a image is worth more than a thousand words as there really is no name for half of what you see. Only a rather leg thy and misinterpretation prone description.

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